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Hey thing-a-day, I fell off the map for a few days but we’re still cool, right? 

While I was gone I almost got ate by these dogs:

found out where all the munis sleep:

and pondered the existence of these sort of creepy giant anthropomorphic daschund heads:

Today’s “thing” took considerably longer than I had hoped, but I’m excited about it. One of the “things” I’ve been promising to do for over a year was to get my photos up on the web. I finally got the shell of my web site up, and the beginnings of my photo gallery in place. I’m using a combination of WordPress with Adobe Lightroom web galleries, and there is a lot of code hacking that needs to be done to make the two play nicely together.

You can see the beginnings of my project at JWaak.com

guess which one is doing it’s own thing…

Zanies!

I decided to start early today. Busy day planned ahead with cleaning, seed, planting, crafting, and watching super bowl commercials. Taking pictures of my dog is my favorite thing to do. She interesting to me and getting a good shot is hard because she is always moving and always really close to me.

The photo session started out okay. It was rather difficult to get her a nice distance from me so I could take a photo. I tried to get her to sit and stay far away but this made her get upset. Instead of sitting she was jumping up at my hand. She started to show her little teeth ha. She gets like this when she is annoyed.

In the end she gave up and let me have a nice picture.

My intention with joining thing a day was to improve my writing and my cooking, and to give me an excuse to bake more.  Of the three, writing has the highest priority, so what better way to inaugurate my month of thing a day than with a writing exercise?

With that in mind, I decided to take the word list posted by a previous thing a day-er, twickster, and see if I could work those ten words into something.  I wasn’t sure what.  My mind jumped immediately to poetry, but when I sat down to type, stream of consciousness prose came tumbling out.  I was still able, however, to work in those words.  I think even with only occasional awkwardness.

However, it’s long.  So I decided rather than clutter up the thing a day front page with the writing itself, I will direct people to my writing blog.

Thus my thing a day entry is posted here, and I hope everyone enjoys it.  It’s about a puppy and snow, and the start of my adaptation to winter.